Kayley Judy scored in the 65th minute off a feed from Jada Holloman as the Tritons ran their winning streak to six matches with a 1-0 victory over Upper Iowa on Sunday. (Photo by Patrick Clark/Athlete’s Eye Photography)
Women’s Soccer
The University of Missouri–St. Louis women’s soccer team clinched a spot in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament for the fourth consecutive season after posting victories over Quincy and Upper Iowa over the weekend to run its winning streak to six matches. Josie Maddox scored 14 seconds into Friday’s match at Quincy and added another goal in the 15th minute to help the Tritons take control. Natalie Scott scored in the 75th minute to cap off the 3-0 victory. UMSL, which hasn’t lost since Oct. 4 against Maryville, outshot Quincy 28-3 and had a 9-3 edge in shots on goal. Maddox now has eight goals on the season. Upper Iowa put up more resistance on Sunday afternoon in Fayette, Iowa, but Kayley Judy scored her third goal of the season off a feed from Jada Holloman in the 64th minute of a 1-0 Tritons victory. Goalkeeper Mary Kate Neal made three saves as she recorded her third consecutive shutout and sixth on the season. UMSL (10-3-2, 7-3-2 GLVC) wraps up its regular-season schedule this week, hosting matches against William Jewell on Friday and Truman State on Sunday. The GLVC Tournament will kick off on Nov. 10.
Men’s Soccer
The Tritons snapped a seven-match winless streak with a 2-0 victory at Quincy on Friday night and followed it up with a 2-1 win at Upper Iowa on Sunday. UMSL had not won since a 3-1 victory at Rockhurst on Sept. 22, with five ties and two losses in the month since. Drew Schenk and Gibson Hunt each scored in the first 10 minutes, 9 seconds of Friday’s win and the Tritons were in control throughout, outshooting the Hawks 11-3 with a 9-1 advantage in shots on goal. Goalkeeper Austin Reis made one save while posting his second shutout of the season. He made three saves in Sunday’s victory in Fayette, Iowa. His only blemish came in the 25th minute on Thomas Walle’s penalty kick, which tied the match at 1 after Jon Campbell scored 10:12 into the opening frame. Campbell snapped the tie in the 86th minute as he tallied his eighth goal of the season. UMSL outshot Upper Iowa 21-9 with a 13-4 advantage in shots on goal. The Tritons (5-4-6, 3-3-6 GLVC) will play their final two matches of the regular season, playing host to William Jewell on Friday and Truman State on Sunday with the GLVC Tournament set to kick off on Nov. 10.
Men’s Cross Country
Senior Jacob Warner raced to a seventh-place finish Saturday at the 2024 GLVC Championship, claiming all-conference honors and helping UMSL place fourth in the 8-kilometer race at the University of Illinois Springfield Cross Country Course in Springfield, Illinois. Warner clocked a personal-best time of 24 minutes, 26 seconds. Toby Middleton finished two places out of all-conference position, finishing 22nd with a personal-best time of 24:54.21. Will Kaempfe also set a personal best with a time of 25:03.49 to finish 28th. Benjamin VandenBrink came in 33rd with a time of 25:22.15, and Emmett Johnson rounded out UMSL’s top five with a 37th-place finish at 25:25.25. Lewis’ Evan Horgan won the individual title in a time of 23:23.64 and led the Flyers to the team competition. Lewis had four of the top nine finishers in the 170-runner race. UMSL will compete in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional on Nov. 9 in Romeoville, Illinois.
Women’s Cross Country
The Tritons ran to a ninth-place finish at the 2024 GLVC Championship on Saturday at the UIS Cross Country Course. Kayley Heeter was UMSL’s top finisher, placing 47th in a field of 140 runners with a time of 23:24.29 in the 6-kilometer race. The Tritons had three other runners in the top 100 as Bridget Ragan placed 66th in 24:08.16, Ella Tynan was 90th in 25:13.37 and Isabella Massaro was 93rd in 25:17.59. Melissa White rounded out UMSL’s top five with a time of 27:04.02. Lewis captured its third straight championship with a perfect score of 15 points while Southwest Baptist took second with 77 points as it edged Truman State by five points for the runner-up spot. Lewis’ Hannah Smrcka was the individual champion with a time of 20:53.42. The Tritons will race in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional on Nov. 9 in Romeoville, Illinois.
Women’s Golf
No. 15 UMSL wrapped up its fall schedule in Hawaii last week by winning the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate on Tuesday at the Village Course at Waikoloa before placing third in the Hawaii Pacific Shark Shootout on Saturday at the Mauna Lai North Course in Kamuela. The Tritons finished with a combined score of 591 in the 36-hole Dennis Rose Invitational. Wilma Zanderau paced UMSL by tying for fourth with a total of 147 and was named to the all-tournament team. Hillary Currier and Juliette Lecomte each tied for 10th at 149. Emmy Wahl tied for 19th with a total of 152. Cal State San Marcos’ Madison Murr claimed individual medalist honors with a score of 137, and Cal State San Marcos was runner-up in the team competition, finishing four shots back of the Tritons. UMSL had three golfers in the top 20 while finishing third out of 15 teams at the HPU Shark Shootout. Mayan Covarrubias tied for 10th with a 36-hole score of 147, Zanderau tied for 13th at 148, and Wahl posted a total of 149 to tie for 17th as the Tritons finished with a combined score of 594, 15 shots back of winner Cal State San Marcos. Murr claimed medalist honors again with a total of 138. UMSL will open its spring schedule in February.
Men’s Golf
The 23rd-ranked Tritons finished second out of nine teams last Tuesday in the Intercollegiate at Nemacolin, hosted by the University of Findlay at the Mystic Rock Course at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington, Pennsylvania. UMSL posted a combined score of 863 in the 54-hole tournament, finishing 11 shots behind Grand Valley State. Four Tritons golfers placed among the top 20 with Trigg Lindahl the runner-up with a total of 208, Benjamin Berger tying for ninth with score of 218, Logan Mayo tying for 12th at 220 and Dani Solavera tying for 18th at 222. Grand Valley State’s Manuel Cue was the individual medalist with a score of 204, helping the Lakers post a team score of 852. UMSL is off until February when it begins its fall schedule.
Volleyball
The 14th-ranked Tritons have dropped three consecutive matches after back-to-back road losses to Maryville on Friday and Missouri S&T on Saturday. UMSL lost 25-18, 25-12, 18-25, 25-20 on Friday against the Saints, who held the Tritons to a .159 hitting percentage and also tallied 16 aces en route to the victory. Addison Voorhees registered a team-high 13 kills in the loss, and Skylar Weaver had 15 digs. The Tritons weren’t much more efficient in their attack against the Miners, finishing with a .192 hitting percentage in a a 25-23, 14-25, 25-21, 17-25, 15-11 defeat on Saturday. They had 37 errors to Missouri S&T’s 11. Alayna Santel had a match-leading 24 kills. She also had six of UMSL’s 13 aces. Caitlin Bishop registered 64 aces, and Skylar Weaver recorded 32 digs. The Tritons (15-5, 4-3 GLVC) will look to turn things around when they play host to Truman State on Friday and Upper Iowa on Saturday at the Mark Twain Athletic Center.
